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Name  C.E.B. Reas
Role  Artist
Books  Processing

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Education  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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C. E. B. Reas (born 1972), also known as Casey Edwin Barker Reas or Casey REAS, is an artist whose conceptual, procedural and minimal art works explore ideas through the contemporary lens of software.


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Reas is best known for having created, with Ben Fry, the Processing programming language.

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Reas's software generated images derive from short text instructions explaining processes that define a network of actions. The instructions are expressed in different media including natural language, machine code, and computer simulations, resulting in both dynamic and static images. Each translation reveals a different perspective on the process and combines with the others to produce continually evolving visual traces. Since 2012, Reas has incorporated broadcast images into his work, algorithmically distorting them to create abstractions that retain traces of their original, representational function.

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Reas studied design at the University of Cincinnati and then spent the next two years developing software and electronics as an artistic exploration. While studying design in Cincinnati, Casey Reas was a member of a band called 'nancy' with Scott Devendorf and Matt Berninger, who went on to become members of The National.

In 2001, Reas earned a Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences as a part of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s MIT Media Lab.



In 2003, Reas moved to Los Angeles where he is currently a Professor in the department of Design | Media | Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reas is also notable for having created the Processing programming language. Together with Ben Fry, he created the software while at MIT, and it is now used by thousands of artists and designers worldwide.

Public collections

His work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and other institutions.


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